Re: handling env variables like JAVA_HOME, M2_HOME...
On 10/17/2010 03:21 PM, Marius Andreiana wrote: How can Fedora work out of the box with apps requiring env variables like JAVA_HOME, M2_HOME ? Today, even though fedora provides java maven, one still has to manually set these vars. Should Fedora java/maven packages set these (e.g. by files in /etc/profile.d/), while still allowing users to overwrite them in ~/.bash_profile? Please be specific. What application wouldn't work? Even better...output from running the app? -- Stanislav Ochotnicky sochotni...@redhat.com Associate Software Engineer - Base Operating Systems Brno PGP: 71A1677C Red Hat Inc. http://cz.redhat.com signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature -- devel mailing list devel@lists.fedoraproject.org https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel
handling env variables like JAVA_HOME, M2_HOME...
How can Fedora work out of the box with apps requiring env variables like JAVA_HOME, M2_HOME ? Today, even though fedora provides java maven, one still has to manually set these vars. Should Fedora java/maven packages set these (e.g. by files in /etc/profile.d/), while still allowing users to overwrite them in ~/.bash_profile? -- devel mailing list devel@lists.fedoraproject.org https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel
Re: handling env variables like JAVA_HOME, M2_HOME...
On Sun, Oct 17, 2010 at 04:21:11PM +0300, Marius Andreiana wrote: How can Fedora work out of the box with apps requiring env variables like JAVA_HOME, M2_HOME ? Today, even though fedora provides java maven, one still has to manually set these vars. Should Fedora java/maven packages set these (e.g. by files in /etc/profile.d/), while still allowing users to overwrite them in ~/.bash_profile? I guess so, but seems better to avoid needing the variables in the first place. It seems that JAVA_HOME is not required, provided you are using the default Fedora package. (At least, that is my impression from a small test I just did.) Rich. PS. yikes, Java is so verbose ... -- Richard Jones, Virtualization Group, Red Hat http://people.redhat.com/~rjones virt-df lists disk usage of guests without needing to install any software inside the virtual machine. Supports Linux and Windows. http://et.redhat.com/~rjones/virt-df/ -- devel mailing list devel@lists.fedoraproject.org https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel
